Two pension reforms in Austria increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62 for men and from 55 to 58.25 for women …. The reforms reduced early retirement by 18.9 percentage points among affected men aged 60-62 and by 22.3 percentage points ….1 percentage points among women. The reforms had large spillover effects to the unemployment insurance program but negligible …

employment rate since workers also apply for more disability and unemployment benefits. Moreover, most of them simply retire … normal retirement age (NRA) from 60 years to 65 years for private-sector male employees. The analysis, based on a difference …